And they will reach the roof of an apartment building!

Kaede might be a teeny bit reluctant to let go.

Aww. They can hold hands?

Yaaay!

You're adorable.

Thank you! And here we can do the talking-while-telepathing thing.

"You're adorable," she says aloud.

"You're adorable," he repeats like he's both tasting the words and saying them. He has an accent, but then, how wouldn't he?

Of course he does. It's a nice accent. "The door's there," she says, pointing to the door to the inside of the building.

"The door's?" You have a single word for the subject and the verb?

"It's a contraction. The door is. The door's."

Oh, interesting. Some languages in the north have stuff like that, but I never learnt them. How do I say all that in—what's the name of your language?

"English." And she repeats the words for him.

He repeats them right back, and grins.

She smiles back. And then they can go inside and he can be introduced to the wonderful world of apartment buildings!

There are actually apartment buildings where he's from! Although most stuff is magical—even the sofas are.

What, really? What is the point of magical sofas.

They float.

That seems...sort of wasteful, if his kind of magic is finite.

It is a bit, but making things merely float is one of the cheapest kinds of artefacts, as these things go. And not all apartments have sofas, but usually if you have money to live in an apartment you have money to have a floating sofa.

"Are most people homeless, or are apartments a higher-end living arrangement?"

The latter. Most people live in small houses in towns that do not have apartment buildings.

"Most people here live in cities, and an apartment is cheaper than a house by a lot."

Cities aren't really a thing outside Teinnab, and there they are large opulent stone things that float high above the earth—or water, it's mostly swamps there.

"So it sort of seems like your world's thing is 'how can we do this thing as inconveniently as possible'."